Failed suicide bomber ‘acted out of revenge’

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THE Iraqi woman who accompanied her husband on a suicide bombing in Jordan last week was apparently seeking to avenge three close relatives who were killed by American forces in Iraq over the past year.

Jordanian officials investigating the Amman attacks said that Sajida Mubarak al- Rishawi lost two brothers and a brother-in-law during US military operations against insurgents in the Iraqi province of Anbar, which borders Jordan.

Her brother-in-law, Nidal Arabiyat, 29, a Jordanian who was a chief bombmaker for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the insurgent leader, was killed in Ramadi, the provincial capital, in 2004. Her two brothers, including